LibGuides: PHY 101- Physical Science I: Energy

Energy

The third chapter of your textbook focuses on Energy. Some of the important concepts in this section include work, energy, momentum, and relativity.

Library Resources

Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman; Paul Davies (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780201409550
Publication Date: 1994-11-20
Six Easy Pieces, taken from the famous Lectures on Physics, represents the most accessible material from this series. In these six chapters, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics, energy, gravitation, and quantum force. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion without equations or technical jargon.
Physics for Engineering and Science by Michael Browne
ISBN: 9780071810906
Publication Date: 2013-05-28
Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives you a succinct review of physics topics such as motion, energy, fluids, waves, heat, and magnetic fields. Plus, you will have access to 25 detailed videos featuring instructors who explain the most commonly tested concepts.
Angular Momentum by D. M. Brink; G. R. Satchler
ISBN: 9780198517597
Publication Date: 1994-03-24
This book introduces the quantum theory of angular momentum to students who are unfamiliar with it and develops it to a stage useful for research.The first part contains the basic theory of rotations and angular momentum. As the book aims to emphasize applications, mathematical details are avoided and difficult theorems stated without proof. The second part contains examples of applications to a wide range of physical phenomena and presentsa collection of results helpful in solving problems.
General Relativity by I. R. Kenyon
ISBN: 9780198519966
Publication Date: 1990-09-20
General relativity is discussed in this book at a level appropriate to undergraduate students of physics and astronomy. It describes concepts and experimental results, and provides a succinct account of formalism. A brief review of special relativity is followed by a discussion of theequivalence principle and its implications. The book also contains a set of worked examples, background appendices, and an annotated bibliography.

Linear Momentum and Newton's Laws

Linear Momentum and Newton's Laws of Motion

"In section one of this program, colliding basketball players demonstrate the Principle of Conservation of Momentum, while section two debuts all three of Newton’s Laws of Motion, as illustrated by moving a large bookcase, hanging from a rope, and pushing against a wall. Newtonian concepts of inertia, force, mass, weight, equilibrium, tension, and momentum, plus free-body diagramming, are also covered. “Live the laws, love the laws, be one with the laws.”

Useful Videos

The Special Theory of Relativity

"This group of 12 concise computer-animated videos illustrates Einstein’s monumental contributions to the study of light. Showing how rudimentary ideas of material wave motion yielded to more advanced concepts of electromagnetic waves, the program details Einstein’s conclusions about the speed of light and his conception of time—which, given his findings on mass and energy, proceeds according to variable frames of reference. Relativistic thought experiments, conveyed through helpful animation, demonstrate simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, and relativistic mass."